Death Be Not Proud

by landofthekwt

Inuyasha and Shiori cling to each other after their spouses die "The Long Goodbye" "Carry On My Wayward Son" and a "Life Well Lived ""The Bravest Man in the World" and "Educating Musushio" are prologues to Death Be Not Proud and an ending to Ten Years After Don't own it or make make money from it

6. Foolishness

Title Foolishness

Author landofthekwt

Rating PG-13

Prompt Nonsense (ib4y)

Word Count 404

Genre Hurt/Comfort

Warning none

Summary Inuyasha contemplates the pain of parting caused by the death of the human partner in youkai/human matings

The news of Rin's illness cut like a knife. He had rarely seen her since she left with Lord Sesshoumaru for the Western Shiro. To him, she would always be that little girl who tagged along with Sesshoumaru

She had been so happy having finally bagged the bastard. A fairy tale wedding then a happily-ever-after. Was it really only fifty years ago? Where did the time go?

The kami were not fair. To allow Kagome, Kohaku and now Rin to be taken from the ones that loved them after such a brief time. He wondered if the kami had kept the youkai and humans apart for this very reasons

His pups were at least fully grown when Kagome died. She saw them all marry and bounced her grandchildren and great-grandchildren on her knee before she died. Her life span had been longer than those around them, but not nearly long even for him

Still he had asked her whether it was worth it. To give up her world for him and his children. She had laughed in his face. The world she had given up was one without him. In its place she had him and his children. She considered herself fortunate.

Her loss had been devestating to him. Without the children he would have been lost, Still he had seen the first signs of age. The oldest Sakura was sixty. Barely a teenager, but already a would bury her just as she would bury her children. .

Kagome once told him that their children would probably live for four hundred years if Inuyasha was any indication. As each generation bred with humans they became more human and as a result more mortal.

Sesshoumaru had called him a fool when he married Kagome. She would die long before he did and he would spend the rest of his long life alone.

Sesshoumaru was not immune to foolishness apparently. He had fallen for Rin just as he had fallen for Kagome. Now he would have to pay for his folly.

Inuyasha tried to think of something to tell Sesshoumaru to give him hope and came up blank. He turned to his traveling companion as they boarded the ferry bound for Kyushu.

"What should I tell Sesshoumaru?"

She put her hand in his and smiled " Remember what you had, treasure what you have, and don't give up hope for the future."